ratalieann

I don't dream about anyone except myself

[bevsi]

BUNS

[deathandmysticism]

Hendrik Goltzius, Quis Evadet, 1594

[20th-century-man]

[20th-century-man]

Eve Meyer / photo by Russ Meyer, 1955.

[nemfrog]

“The muscles of man and cat compare favorably, indicating common origins.” . Zoology. 1952.

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[inky-curves]

Everything Happens to Harvey #1 (September-October 1953)

Cover by Bob Oksner

[sinobug]

MOTHS from Yunnan, China Click on and scroll through images for individual IDs….. by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu’er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese moths on my Flickr site HERE…

[ripe]

thedragonwoodconservancy on ig

[cryptidsydario]

laser gun gator boys

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

oh my god i didn’t realize this video had audio

[actualaster]

Okay as adorable as this looks, I’m pretty sure that’s a distress sound?  A “mommy help me I’m scared come save me!” sound?

@why-animals-do-the-thing

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

This video is from Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy, and they are yearling (last year’s babies) Cuban crocodiles. Good news for you, this isn’t actually a distress call! According to @kaijutegu​ (and her giant bookshelf full of reptile resources), the laser sounds are an affiliative social call that young Cuban crocodiles use to communicate with their parents. They normally stop making the noise at around two years old, which is approximately when they start dispersing from the family group.

See, Cuban crocodiles are a super social species - and one of the few where the fathers stick around and provide paternal care for the babies! In the wild, babies would regularly interact with both parents, including when they provide food. This call is basically the type of vocalization that the babies use to communicated with their parents.

These crocodiles are being hand-raised as part of a private-sector breeding and reintroduction program (because the parents are so protective of their offspring that if you left them the babies to raise, you’d never be able to safely get close to them), and so they’re responding to the guy in the video the same way because he’s constant known safe individual and also the provider of food. He’s not a threat - his presence is a good thing, and he’s worth interacting with because it normally means food. You can also tell from their behavior and body language that they’re not stressed: some of the crocodiles are actively climbing on him and interaction of their own volition, but the ones that aren’t don’t show any indicators of hyper-vigilance. If that were a distress call, every crocodile that heard it would be alert and on edge looking for the threat. Distress calls tend to only happen once or twice, because in the wild continuing to make noise makes a baby more vulnerable: so these crocodiles wouldn’t be continually vocalizing if they felt threatened. There’s no snapping or gaping or freezing, all of which would be behavioral indicators of distress or discomfort. (Here’s a video of a baby nile crocodile being harassed by photographers which will give you a visual reference for both freezing and gaping.)

So, hey, this is certifiably cute - and good for conservation!

[nemfrog]

“Internal organs of the pigeon (the heart has been removed).” Teaching High School Science. 1958.

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[moodboardmix]

Man Ray “Glass Tears”, 1932. 

Images © the artist, courtesy Sir Elton John Collection / Tate Modern.

[nemfrog]

A clown with astronomical short pants. Gaston Maréchaux. Coloristes. 1937.

Gallica

[fromtheabundance]

To Autumn

BY JOHN KEATS

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,   Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,   And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;      To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells   With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease,      For summer has o'er-brimm’d their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?   Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,   Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,   Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook      Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep   Steady thy laden head across a brook;   Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,      Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?   Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,   And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn   Among the river sallows, borne aloft      Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;   Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft   The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;      And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

[xoverit]

Social housing in Iquique, Chile. (2003)

[nemfrog]

Modern work saving steel kitchens. 1938. Product catalog cover art.

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[dailyoverview]

The largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world is located at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. The facility - run by the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group - contains more than 4,400 retired American military and government aircraft.

Instagram: https://bit.ly/2lIbRXU

32.150574°, -110.827969°

Source imagery: Nearmap

[sin-eater]

“A SONG BIRD OF THE PECULIAR PARISH”

[qock]

[gurafiku]

Japanese Advertisement: Stomach cramp medication. 1920